We’re all used to the obvious robocalls that leave tons of voicemails and the spam emails that clog up our inboxes. But if you’re a business owner, you aren’t always prepared when a senior manager receives an email from someone posing as you or a compelling link supposedly sent out by HR leads to powerful,
Security
Attack Surface Management: How to Lower Cybersecurity Risk by Reducing Your Company’s Attack Surface
It’s hard to comprehend how hackers find ways to enter your network and cripple your business. While you may be focusing on other areas of growth for your company, you can’t leave a portion of your network unprotected and therefore accessible to bad hackers. Consider your attack surface and how to protect it. The reality
Understanding Cyber Security Key Performance Indicators: 10 KPIs You Need to Track to Protect Your Business From Ransomware and Other Threats
Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow companies to measure their progress toward goals. They give you a way of checking in to see how you’re doing. Cyber security KPI metrics provide an assessment method to give you insight into whether you’re at risk and if you’re doing enough to keep your company safe. Cyber attacks are
What Is a Business Continuity Plan? (7 Tips to Create a BCP)
How to Get Started with the NIST Risk Management Framework
Most companies don’t think they’re at risk for a cybersecurity attack until it happens to them. By then, it’s too late to stop the wheels already in motion. Their system is compromised, information may be stolen, and the entire organization is vulnerable. Prevention starts with business leaders creating a risk management strategy that ensures data
How to Get Started with ISO 27001 Controls and Compliance
ISO 27001 certification provides a framework for protecting any business with an online footprint or large stores of digital data. Getting certified means your organization has created a risk management plan for information security that meets or exceeds the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) criteria. But the daunting numbers and jargon are enough to make
IBM i 7.5 Announcement: The Future of Power Systems
Business owners and IT managers know that a company’s operating system is only as useful as its ability to handle complex business tasks, manage essential resources, and keep mission-critical operations running, while maintaining vital security and protections against costly downtime. When it comes to IBM Power Systems, IBM i has allowed businesses to manage hardware
5 Ways to Secure your IBM i from Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware is a threat to organizations of all sizes and is only growing, both in frequency and in sophistication. Using a variety of attacks, criminals will hold a company’s data and systems hostage unless a ransom is paid, and in 70% of those incidents, businesses never recover all of their data, even after paying the
IBM i System Access Security
As more corporations consider moving their IBM i systems to the cloud, a common concern has emerged: that their systems will be less secure than they are on-premises. One of key concerns is secure access—keeping unauthorized users out of your IBM i and maintaining control over what authorized users can do once they’re logged in.
IBM i Security Best Practices
As more and more enterprises migrate their data and apps to the cloud, they do so to reap the benefits inherent in assigning the task of managing the infrastructure that is required to support critical application and data to Cloud Service Providers, from cost savings and reduced management to 24/7 around-the-clock support. Yet security is
